Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device in which a light-emitting region is increased in size without decreasing the yield. This light-emitting device includes a central light-emitting unit, and a plurality of peripheral light-emitting units arranged to fill a periphery of the central light-emitting unit, wherein each of the central light-emitting unit and the peripheral light-emitting units includes a substrate and light-emitting elements mounted on the substrate, and an area of the light-emitting region of each of the peripheral light-emitting units is equal to or smaller than an area of the light-emitting region of the central light-emitting unit.

Abstract: A side-push push-button switch is provided in which the strength of a rear surface side of a housing to which a load is particularly applied by outside force caused by the switching operation of a push-button member is increased to stably mount the housing on a circuit board and ensure reliable and secure switching operation. The push-button switch includes a housing, a push-button member, and a holding frame. The housing accommodates a switch contact. The push-button member is disposed on a front-surface center portion of the housing and configured to press the switch contact. The holding frame of a channel shape covers outer surfaces of the housing. Both ends of the holding frame are secured to front-surface side portions of the housing on both sides of the push-button member.

Abstract: A planar light unit is provided that suppresses appearance of a bright line when viewed from the side of the emission surface of the light guide plate. The planar light unit includes a light source, and a light guide plate including an incident surface for receiving light emitted from the light source, an emission surface from which the light introduced through the incident surface is emitted, an opposing surface disposed so as to oppose the emission surface, and a side surface disposed along an outer periphery of the emission surface and the opposing surface. The emission surface has a non-rectangular outer shape, and at least a part of the side surface is formed as a diffusing surface.

Abstract: Provided is an LED package which is unlikely to cause the attenuation of emitted light from an LED element by bonding wires for electrical connection of the LED element. The LED package includes a board including a pair of connection electrodes formed thereon, an LED element mounted on the board, a bonding wire electrically connecting the LED element to the pair of connection electrodes, and a covering layer containing a phosphor and covering the bonding wire, wherein the phosphor is excited by emitted light from the LED element to emit light having an absorbance in the bonding wire lower than that of the emitted light and a wavelength longer than that of the emitted light.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light-emitting device having a temperature compensation function implemented with simple circuitry, and a method of temperature compensation in such a light-emitting device. More specifically, the invention provides a light-emitting device and a method of temperature compensation using a light-emitting device, wherein the light-emitting device includes a substrate, a first LED chip which is arranged on the substrate, and which has a characteristic such that ?x and ?y, each representing an amount of displacement on an xy chromaticity diagram, both are negative as temperature rises, and a second LED chip which is arranged on the substrate, and which has a characteristic such that ?x and ?y, each representing an amount of displacement on an xy chromaticity diagram, both are positive as temperature rises.

Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting apparatus including a board, a resin frame fixed on the board, sets of light-emitting elements mounted in a region on the board surrounded by the resin frame, wherein the light-emitting elements configuring each set are connected in series to each other. The light-emitting apparatus further includes connection electrodes provided on the board and electrically connected to the light-emitting elements and capable of supplying a drive current selectively to the sets of light-emitting elements, and a sealing resin which includes a phosphor mixed therein and excited by light from the light-emitting elements, and is filled so as to bury the region on the board, to seal integrally the light-emitting elements. The thickness of the sealing resin immediately above the light-emitting elements differs for the respective sets, and thereby, a chromaticity of light emitted from the sealing resin differs when each set of light-emitting elements emits the light singly.

Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting module that achieves high brightness, whose electrode structure is simple and whose brightness distribution has rotational symmetry. The light-emitting module includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the substrate, LED devices connected between the first electrode and the second electrode, a dam member disposed on the substrate so as to surround the LED devices, and a phosphor-containing resin for sealing the LED devices by being filled into a region surrounded by the dam member on the substrate. The first electrode includes a first outer electrode disposed under the dam member and a first inner electrode disposed nearer to a center of the substrate than the first outer electrode is. The second electrode includes a second outer electrode disposed under the dam member and a second inner electrode disposed nearer to the center of the substrate than the second outer electrode is.

Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting apparatus including a substrate, an LED light source disposed on the substrate, and a reflecting frame disposed laterally of the LED light source on the substrate, wherein the LED light source includes a side-emitting LED device which is disposed on the substrate, and which emits light laterally toward the reflecting frame, and a top-emitting LED device which is disposed above the side-emitting LED device on the substrate so as to straddle the side-emitting LED device and so as to not block a portion of the light emitted from the side-emitting LED device, and which emits light upward, the light being different in color than the light emitted from the side-emitting LED device, and wherein the reflecting frame is disposed so that the light emitted from the side-emitting LED device is reflected upward.

Abstract: To provide an LED lighting apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same that can improve the bonding strength between an aluminum substrate and a printed wiring substrate. An LED lighting apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same, the LED lighting apparatus includes an aluminum substrate, a plurality of reflectivity-enhanced layers formed on the aluminum substrate, an LED device bonded on said plurality of reflectivity-enhanced layers, a printed wiring substrate bonded onto a region on the aluminum substrate other than a region where the plurality of reflectivity-enhanced layers are formed, a wire for connecting between the printed wiring substrate and the LED device, a frame member formed so as to surround said LED device, and a phosphor resin deposited over a region inside the frame member.

Abstract: To reduce impurity contents of carbon and oxygen not contributing to light emission, then suppress deterioration of emission intensity of a phosphor, and improve emission efficiency of this phosphor. Therefore, there is provided a firing method of nitride or oxynitride phosphors, wherein a crucible 11 made of nitride is used as a firing container, and firing is performed, with this crucible covered with a lid (container 10), to manufacture the phosphor. The phosphor is expressed by a general composition formula MABOoN3-2/3O:Z in which element M is one or more kinds of elements having bivalent valency, element A is one or more kinds of elements having tervalent valency, element B is one or more kinds of elements having tetravalent valency, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and element Z is an activating agent, satisfying o?0.

Abstract: In a first aspect of the present inventive subject matter, a lighting device includes a light-emitting device 1 including p-contact and n-contact that are separately arranged from each other on a first surface of the light-emitting element and a phosphor layer including a phosphor particle and covering the light-emitting element 1 except the p-contact and n-contact of the light-emitting element, the phosphor layer includes a higher density of the phosphor particle on a position of the first surface between the p-contact and the n-contact of the light-emitting element than on a position of a second surface that is an opposite surface of the first surface 1b of the light-emitting element.

Abstract: In a first aspect of the present inventive subject matter, a planar light guide device includes light-emitting elements arranged on a surface of a substrate to be an alignment on a center line between two long edges of the surface of the substrate; and a light-transmitting resin including a region in which optical elements are arranged at a first side and a second side of the light-transmitting resin, and the optical element includes a first surface and a second surface that is smaller in area than the first surface, and the first surface of the optical element is inclined with an angle that is in a range of one to 40 degrees with respect to a surface that is perpendicular to the mounting surface of the substrate with an edge of the surface in parallel with the center line between the two long edges of the surface of the substrate.